''In Search of a Concrete Music'' (French: ''À la recherche d'une musique concrète''), written and published in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
, is a
French language
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publication which forms a major part of the
experimental
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composer and theoretician
Pierre Schaeffer
Pierre Henri Marie Schaeffer (English pronunciation: , ; 14 August 1910 – 19 August 1995) was a French composer, writer, broadcaster, engineer, musicologist, acoustician and founder of Groupe de Recherche de Musique Concrète (GRMC). His innov ...
's
collection of works written to record his own undertakings on the development of
musique concrète
Musique concrète (; ): " problem for any translator of an academic work in French is that the language is relatively abstract and theoretical compared to English; one might even say that the mode of thinking itself tends to be more schematic, ...
.
The collection is discussed, among other works of Schaeffer's, in chapter two of Robert Martial's ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée''.
[Martial, Robert. ''Pierre Schaeffer, des transmissions à Orphée.'' Paris: L'Harmattan, 1999. ()]
In this text, some have suggested, Schaeffer imagined a computerized music studio:
Contents
* DÉDICACE
* 1ER JOURNAL, 1948–1949
* 2E JOURNAL, 1950–1951
* 3 EXPÉRIENCE CONCRÈTE, 1952
* 4 ESQUISSE D'UN SOLFÈGE CONCRET
Notes
References
Delalande, François. "D’une technologie à l’autre." ''Enjeux et initiatives.'' 6-10.
1952 non-fiction books
Works by Pierre Schaeffer
Music books
Musique concrète
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